Color replacing gradients?

[Darkar25]

i`d like to see some kind of ability to use gradients instead of plain color for everything...like text, borders, etc, not only backgrounds...
Thanks for the awesome library btw, very useful and very cool looking...

[mgierlasinski]

@Darkar25 I'm glad you like it :)

GradientView is Xamarin Forms control and cannot be used to paint standard controls because they are created on platform level inside renderers. However we can use GradientView to build composite controls which are created fully in XAML from other controls.

In the upcoming release we plan to introduce Masks feature that will basically give you possibility to clip GradientView to any shape, including text. You will be able to draw something more than just a rectangle.

We also have some ideas about releasing something like toolkit, another NuGet with composite controls build from GradientView. You can look at the MagicButton that we have so far:

https://github.com/mgierlasinski/MagicGradients/tree/master/MagicGradients.Toolkit/Controls

[Darkar25]

@mgierlasinski , thanks, ill check it out...i mean in CSS, not in GradientView...
background: linear-gradient(0deg,#FF0000,#00FF00); /* use gradient for background, you already have this */ border-color: linear-gradient(0deg, #FFFF00, #00FFFF); /* suggestion, use gradient as border color */ color: linear-gradient(0deg, #00FF00, #00FF00); /* suggestion, use gradient as text color and many other things, not just in builtin xamarin elements */